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May 01 2025
Charles Alexandre Bédard, Sophie Berthelette et al.
In statistical mechanics, entropy is defined as a fundamental quantity. However, its unit, J / K , involves that of temperature, which is only subsequently defined—and defined in terms of ...
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May 01 2025
Mark Denny
The venerable sling is a difficult weapon to master—we show that very precise timing is required to hit a target. Internal ballistics are analyzed to support ancient claims of the weapon's range ...
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April 25 2025
Alexander Marx, Sascha W. Epp
The analysis of ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) data from low-symmetry single crystals of small molecules is often challenged by the difficulty of assigning unique Laue indices to the observed ...
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April 25 2025
Ruo-Jue Zou, Long Deng et al.
Twisted few-layer graphene (tFLG) has emerged as an ideal model system for investigating novel strongly correlated and topological phenomena. However, the experimental construction of tFLG with high ...
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April 25 2025
Hannah Viola, Liang-Hsin Chen et al.
Dysregulated neutrophil recruitment drives many pulmonary diseases, but most preclinical screening methods are unsuited to evaluate pulmonary neutrophilia, limiting progress toward therapeutics. ...
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April 25 2025
Chenjiang Qian, Viviana Villafañe et al.
A spectral anomaly exhibiting pronounced asymmetry is observed in the emission spectrum for nanocavities when they are pumped by the charged boron vacancy V B − and have a high ...
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April 25 2025
Tetsufumi Tanamoto, Keiji Ono
The effect of valley splitting on the readout of qubit states is theoretically investigated in a three-quantum-dot (QD) system. A single unit of the three-QD system consists of qubit-QDs and a ...